#86 | Hiking the Vermont Long Trail as a first Thru Hike

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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My good friend Kayla joins the show this week to talk all about her FIRST THRU HIKE EVER in which she completed MY FAVORITE TRAIL EVER i.e the Vermont Long Trail! The Long Trail is tough, and hiking it in a group of 4 is even tougher, so I think it's awesome that she was able to crush it! We talk about group hiking, some of her favorite spots on the trail, and at the end of the episode she shares a story of a bear encounter in the Adirondacks. Please consider supporting my 46Climbs team to raise money for suicide prevention. Video explaining what 46Climbs is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQXr9AvW5Bo Link to my fundraising page: https://afsp.donordrive.com/team/258063 Thanks to Sawyer Products for sponsoring this episode. Go learn about them at: https://www.sawyer.com/ Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram, or send me an email: [email protected] you're really into Trail Tales and want to receive some bonus content, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailtalesFeel free to leave me a five-star review on iTunes, and subscribe if you like the show! My personal Instagram is @kylehateshiking, so feel free to follow me on there as well. Subscribe on iTunes, and listen on Google Play and Stitcher

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0:00.0	How's it going, everybody? You clicked on the episode. You heard the stupid intro music. You know what time it is. Trail Tales time. Welcome to episode number 86. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I'm a through hiker. I am a peak bagger. I am a huge hiking nerd. And every single week on this podcast, I chat with other hiking nerds about their experiences on the trail. And this week's guest goes by the name of Kayla. She is a good friend of mine. We both met at Clarkson University, so she's one of the
0:40.6	few Trail Tales guests so far that I actually knew outside of hiking before we kind of connected
0:47.5	through hiking. Anyways, she hiked the Vermont Long Trail this past June, and as most of you probably know if you listen to this show a lot,
0:56.0	I live here in Vermont. I love the long trail. I've hiked it a couple times and it's just amazing
1:01.0	so I was very excited to talk about it. We pretty much just jumped all over the place. It was her first
1:06.7	through hike so we do spend a decent amount of time talking about that. We also talk quite a bit
1:12.0	about what it's like to hike in a group of people. So it was a great, great episode. I had a lot of
1:17.8	fun. And of course, at the end, Kayla has a bear story to share. So people love the bear stories. So
1:23.9	go listen all the way until the end. Please. It was a great chat. And Kayla,
1:28.5	thanks so much for doing this. I really appreciate it. And let's do another one soon.
1:32.8	46 Climes, folks. If you don't know what 46 Climes is, it is a charity run by a good friend of
1:39.7	mine and his wife, Colby Zemandorf, also a previous guest of the show, a charity that raises
1:46.2	money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and they put like a hiking twist on it.
1:51.1	So when you sign up, you get to choose a mountain out there anywhere in the world, and you
1:55.4	get to go hike it with the t-shirt and all the swag that they send you after you make your
1:59.4	donation.
2:00.0	So please go check out 46 Climes.com, and send you after you make your donation so please go check
2:01.3	out 46 climes.com and if you want to make a donation be sure to do it under the kyle hates hiking
2:07.3	team that's where we're pooling all the money from the trail tales listeners and the viewers from
2:12.4	my youtube channel so i will have a link to that in the show notes please go check out the
2:16.5	kyle hates hiking team for 46 Climes.
2:19.2	That would be much appreciated.
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